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Senior National Reporter @HealthbeatUS + author of Pandora’s Gamble. ayoung@healthbeat.org Signal: alisonyoungreports.48

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Alison Young is the Houston Landing’s Associate Editor for Investigations, a player-coach role that combines doing investigative reporting with also serving as a newsroom reporting coach. Alison is a veteran investigative journalist who has previously reported on health, environment and consumer issues for national and regional news organizations, including USA Today, the Detroit Free Press, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the Dallas Times Herald. She is also the author of Pandora’s Gamble…

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Sports supplement designer has history of risky products

Sports supplement designer has history of risky products

For a man heading to prison for selling dangerous weight-loss pills, it seemed a curious time for supplement …

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Maker of dangerous pain pills is 'ghost' that can't be found

Maker of dangerous pain pills is 'ghost' that can't be found

GUADALAJARA, Mexico - A Mexican dietary supplement called Reumofan has gained a loyal following in the United…

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Supplement Shell Game - full coverage

Supplement Shell Game - full coverage

USA TODAY's "Supplement Shell Game" series investigates the people and companies behind risky dietary supplem…

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Long-gone lead factories leave poisons in nearby yards

Long-gone lead factories leave poisons in nearby yards

Their Cleveland home is a few blocks from a long-forgotten factory that spewed toxic lead dust for about 30 y…

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Some neighborhoods dangerously contaminated by lead fallout

Some neighborhoods dangerously contaminated by lead fallout

Marshall was horrified to learn that a long-forgotten factory once melted lead just across the street and tha…

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Ghost Factories Interactive: Videos, Soil Testing, Site-Specific Findings - USATODAY.com

Ghost Factories Interactive: Videos, Soil Testing, Site-Specific Findings - USATODAY.com

Soil around homes can be contaminated with lead, even if you don't live near an old factory site. Most people…

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Exclusive data: More than 74,000 older adults seek measles immunity tests amid U.S. outbreaks

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By Alison Young Verified
| Healthbeat
Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free national newsletter here. Measles was surging in West Texas as Nancy Churnin eagerly awaited the birth of two grandchildren. She was sure she had been vaccinated decades ago, but she wanted to confirm she was still protected. She didn’t want to risk spreading the highly contagious disease to vulnerable newborns, so she got a simple blood test last year.
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Inside the largest US measles outbreak in decades: Records reveal spread in vaccine-hesitant community

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By Alison Young Verified
| The Greeneville Sun Verified
The first case in what would become the largest U.S. measles outbreak in decades was a parent in South Carolina’s Upstate region near Spartanburg. The next seven people to fall ill were all children. Three of them were being cared for at home — limiting their ability to spread the highly contagious measles virus to others.
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Records reveal spread in vaccine-hesitant community

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| Black Hills Pioneer Verified
Healthbeat reports on the largest U.S. measles outbreak in decades, stemming from a vaccine-hesitant Ukrainian- and Russian-speaking community in South Carolina, resulting in 997 infections.
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